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    Deepwater Horizon blowout

    15-05-2023 On April the 20th 2010 the Deep Water Horizon encountered a blowout. The Blow Out Preventer should have prevented the following disaster but only partly worked.





    (click the Event Map for PDF view)

    In this Event Map based on the US CSB animation we explain the chain of events.
    Bart Smit wrote a blog article about visualisation of the facts related to this accident.


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